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Health and Fitness: How to Design a Diet and Exercise Program 

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Overview

Improve your health and fitness as you gain the skills to create a diet and training program tailored to your needs and goals.

Duration

2 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

Credential

Certificate

Health and Fitness: How to Design a Diet and Exercise Program
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate from University of Malaya
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Health and Fitness: How to Design a Diet and Exercise Program
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Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • Exercise and nutrition both play crucial roles in maintaining your health and fitness. However, diet and training programs must be tailored to an individual's needs in order to achieve optimal results.
  • This two-week course from Universiti Malaya will arm you with the skills to determine your specific needs and create a personalised diet and exercise plan.
  • With this knowledge, you'll have a better understanding of how your body works and be able to combine fitness and nutrition to reach your goals.
  • Energy balance refers to the relationship between the amount of calories (energy) you consume and the amount you expend during your daily activity. The energy we consume and expend can determine how we lose, gain, or maintain weight.
  • On this course, you will examine your own energy balance to understand what your body needs to function well and maintain a healthy weight.
  • You'll also explore the role nutrients play in the body to understand how they can affect your health, exercise ability, and metabolism.
  • The course will give you the tools to measure your fitness level to determine your muscle strength and endurance as well as your cardiorespiratory fitness.
  • With this knowledge, you'll learn how to create an exercise program to suit your needs.
  • The Centre for Sports and Exercise Sciences Universiti Malaya offers the top sports and exercise programs in Malaysia.
  • Guided by world-class experts in fitness and nutrition, you'll know how to create dietary and exercise programs to achieve your health and wellness goals.
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Curriculum

Introduction for Energy Balance in Exercise and Sports

Getting Started

Food for Fuel and Exercise

Component of Fitness

Weekly wrap up

Measuring Fitness and Designing Exercise and Diet Program

Handy Ways to Estimate Fitness Level

Exercise Foundation

Caloric Counting

Weekly wrap up

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